Annual Review 2016/17 Local Enterprise Partnership Annual Review 2016/17 Foreword

2016/17 was a world’s largest wind farm off the that we must continue to build on. of a great number of individuals We have seen our relationship portfolio of training provision in momentous year. Humber, and the announcement With Government developing who have stepped up to drive the with the Careers and Enterprise the Humber to provide the best of DONG Energy’s significant change. Company develop and the possible facilities for residents’ The EU referendum decision a new Industrial Strategy, we expansion in Grimsby were number of Humber projects training – thus increasing career transformed the political need businesses in the Humber That is an important competitive new highlights in the Energy supported via the Company opportunities. agenda and will have profound to shape this and ensure the strength for our region which will Estuary story. There were also increase. These include both implications for the future of the Humber plays a central part. be ever more important as we We have come a long way in the many notable successes for our LEP related events such as the country and our economy. It is worth remarking that the respond to the uncertainties and Humber, we have further to go but established industries and our ‘Your Future’ careers event and achievements of the last few opportunities ahead. with these collaborative, effective Since the referendum decision, leading SMEs. Skills independent innovative projects and strong partnerships we will the LEP has been gathering the years could not have happened By the end of the year, such as Project Blyth which will see achieve more. Unemployment views of businesses to understand without the strong and deepening Lord Haskins employment in the Humber was over 60 electric cars race at Hull’s continues to fall, yet we have their concerns and identify the partnership between businesses, Chair, Humber LEP at a record level. We are investing As always, collaboration and KCOM Stadium this summer. reported skills shortages in a problems and opportunities local authorities and education in new training facilities to We were delighted to see the number of areas. they see ahead. We have been providers, and the commitment partnership have been key ensure we can develop the future Humber Gold Standard being representing those views to workforce, but business must do to our achievements in skills recognised as one of only 12 Government, and we continue to its part too. during 2016/17, with 22 key careers standards in the country seek out intelligence that can be Key Facts and look forward to our own acted on locally or nationally. The impressive start to Hull UK representatives from business, City of Culture, backed up by the validation later this year. The With Government’s attention £14.7m invested physical regeneration of the City education providers and Gold Standard for excellence in and capacity largely absorbed by Centre, is changing perceptions careers education, information, Brexit, we stepped up our efforts Government agencies leading inside and outside our region. advice and guidance has now 15,929 learners to drive the growth of the Humber Change is also happening in town the agenda on our Employment been achieved by 18 of our local supported so far economy for the benefit of local centres, on Enterprise Zone sites schools, colleges and training communities. and Skills Board. and in infrastructure as projects organisations with a further 50 6,548 in STEM related The Humber economy saw around the Humber are delivered partners working towards. subjects via City Deal some landmark moments by our partners with support Building on last year’s successful Our ten working groups have Our skills capital investments are year of partnership and ambitious but achievable during 2016/17. The opening through the LEP. demonstrating good value for 6,844 learners supported of Siemens’ wind turbine blade collaboration the Employment targets, whether these There is a renewed level of money with new facilities such as in the workplace via SSW manufacturing facility on the and Skills Strategy is being are relating to improving confidence and optimism in the Modal Training that specialises 1&2 Enterprise Zone at Green Port implemented across the region. employment opportunities for Humber, and that is something in logistics, the HCF CATCH Hull, the decision to consent the We have seen our Skills Network our residents aged over 50 expansion which supports the grow further to include over years or growing the number 1,786 young people chemicals industries and Goole supported through 350 members from business, of apprentices employed across College’s Vocational Skills education and training and our growth sectors, or increasing Springboard A Workshops. These investments are programme relevant agencies. All members opportunities for our young designed to add to the existing are working together to raise the people. The Humber LEP skills profile of the region.

The Humber Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is one of 38 LEPs in England, and was set up in 2011.

As a business-led partnership with local authorities, the and education and training providers, the LEP drives the growth of the Humber economy for the benefit of our communities. We lead on strategy, influence policy and secure funds. We collaborate with businesses, education providers, local authorities and Government agencies to agree actions, and invest in projects and programmes delivered by our partners that support our ambitions: Skills Network: Our Skills HCF CATCH: Two of the Humber’s Goole College: Growth Deal Skills Network now includes over 350 younger students developing their Capital match investment in the members from business, education skills at HCF CATCH, soon to be Goole College Welding Facilities. An infrastructure that supports growth and training and relevant agencies. expanded.

Thriving successful businesses

A skilled and productive workforce This Annual Review covers the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017. 02 Its publication was postponed due to the General Election. 03 Humber Local Enterprise Partnership Annual Review 2016/17

European Programme status Under way during this year Investment programme Completed funding UK domestic European Structural Added to future programme funding via and Investment Funds The LEP works with Humber LEP (Humber LEP area) Existing future programme

Government to set the To be allocated Investment delivered to date strategy for £88m of European Structural & The LEP has so far secured over £191m of UK Government funding to Investment Funds allocated enable our partners to deliver projects that support our Strategic Economic to our area and advises how Plan. £105m of this has already been invested, leveraging £249m of other they should be spent. When funding to make a total investment to date of £354m in the Humber. added to match funding, this will be a total investment of approximately £146m. Enabled… Resulting in… £18.9m local authority European European Regional Rural Development £105m £62.1m other public sector 2,895 1,300 Growth Deal Other domestic Social Fund Development Fund Programme via Humber LEP £167.8m private sector new jobs delivered new jobs to follow £131.7m £59.5m £37.2m £48.3m £2.1m

GD - Cottingham & Orchard Park: Flood GD - Bridlington Town Centre: alleviation scheme GD/ESIF - : Flood Road improvements to relieve defence improvements to congestion and enable development Map key: GD - Park Street: protect homes and businesses GD Growth Deal Bridge strengthened to A1079 GD - Beverley Grovehill Bridge : provide alternative route A165 Maintenance work completed A614 EZ/GD - Road: Enterprise Zone Investment EZ A164 Road improvements to relieve GD - Road: congestion and improve access ESIF - Gypsey Race: Support for ESIF Humber ESIF Road widened to to development sites new park and avenue as part of relieve congestion Bridlington’s regeneration Enterprise Zone Site GD - Hull housing: EZ - Energy Works: ESIF - Northern Powerhouse First 108 of 900 homes Spencer Group’s Investment Fund: Micro-loan, debt All locations are approximate. delivered waste-to-energy facility and equity finance Projects completed in previous M62 GD - Anlaby & East EZ - Green Port Hull: ESIF - Spark Fund: Innovation and years are not shown. Ella: Flood alleviation Siemens factory now open R&D support EZ - Humber Enterprise Park: scheme started Former BAe buildings refurbished A164 A63 on Enterprise Zone site ESIF - Business support: Start-up, to attract new businesses A63 manufacturing and export support Hull GD- Goole ESIF - Skills Support for the College: New virtual EZ/GD - Paull: Infrastructure Workforce: SME training support welding facilities EZ/GD - Hull Venue: New to enable expansion of Port of A63 Paul M62 Hull on Enterprise Zone site 3,500-capacity conference ESIF - Humber Apprenticeship Brough and performance venue Goole Brokerage Service GD - Paull: New glass flood GD - Trinity Market: wall protects 14,000 homes ESIF - Careers education, Revitalised market drawing and development sites information, advice and guidance GD - ERGO: New in new visitors managed workspace ESIF - ‘In to Work’ programme building at Humber GD - Hull City Centre: Bridgehead M62 GD - Hessle: Flood Enabling infrastructure and GD - Growing the Humber: defence improvements empty property conversion EZ/ESIF - Killingholme Marshes: Grants for business growth (now extended) A15 Pumping station and drainage improvements to EZ/GD – Castle Street: facilitate South Humber Gateway development EZ/GD - Goole Intermodal GD - Normanby Hall: Visitor Landmark bridge to improve Business Loan Fund: Support for Terminal: New integrated economy facilities access to Marina and Fruit Market stalled developments transport facility linking water, GD - MODAL Training: New road and rail EZ - Ron Dearing UTC: logistics training centre opens soon New University Technical M18 GD - Airport: Access improved to College opening September Immingham unlock development ESIF - North East Lincolnshire: Support EZ - Hotel: New DoubleTree A160 to create mitigation land to protect the GD - Westcliff: by Hilton with conference environment and enable new development New enterprise and GD - BarnetbyA15 Top: centre

wellbeing hub New roundabout M180 completed GD - Grimsby Town Centre: Enabling infrastructure to de-risk GD - Rail freight: and accelerate development Scunthorpe Improvements to enable larger GD - Lincolnshire Lakes: containers to be carried to/from EZ/GD - Stallingborough: Flood defences to protect existing the Port of Immingham Infrastructure to enable new GD - Grimsby Town Centre: villages and enable new homes developments on Enterprise Grimsby Road improvements and A18 Zone sites A180 cartergate office development

A1173 M180 Humberside M18 M181 Airport GD - CATCH: New training A180 04 GD - Melton Ross: Bridge workshop and facilities 05 replacement scheme Cleethorpes: Support for town’s regeneration plans

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Flood risk alleviation continues access to and In the past two years our Growing of March 2,997 businesses were to be a key infrastructure need enabling infrastructure on sites near the Humber programme, supported to navigate local and for the area. 2016/17 saw the Stallingborough, Goole and Paull. managed by North East national initiatives. completion of a 520 metre-long Hull’s major housing programme Lincolnshire Council, supported glass panelled flood barrier From business diagnostics, grants, had a further £7.7m Growth 83 businesses with £3.5m in exporting or supply chain support at Paull, East , which Deal investment during 2016/17, grants which will see 416 jobs through the Growth Hub advisors will protect 14,000 homes and with 674 homes started and 108 facilitate industrial development created within two years and and partner agencies, businesses delivered. Over 900 homes will £17m of private sector investment east of Hull. This project has be built or refurbished in total. have been supported to safeguard constructed the UK’s longest leveraged. 224 jobs and create 469. glass flood wall and has added The LEP’s Single Conversation Group, a national pilot, continued The LEP secured a further £8m Through our Marketing Strategy 1.1m (3ft) in height to the existing to extend the programme and defence level. to bring together statutory Group we have also continued agencies and local planning reopened it in April 2017. In to raise the profile of the Humber Procurement was meanwhile authorities to address barriers to total the programme has already for investment, teaming up with the completed on the £13.3m major developments. Successes invested £32m in 334 businesses, Infrastructure Lincolnshire Lakes Flood Defence Business Bondholders to launch a new portal this year included the completion enabling £133m private sector at theHumber.com; delivering more Scheme in North Lincolnshire, of the Siemens/ABP development investment and will create an Humber Renewables exhibition which will support a 6,000-home at Green Port Hull, facilitating development, and preparatory estimated 2,850 jobs by March presences with businesses, The Humber LEP is enabling a vital land purchase to enable With business confidence 2021. demolition work was completed the forthcoming Holderness local authorities and the Green partners to deliver high quality on the Anlaby and East Ella Flood Drain Flood Alleviation Scheme, on the up in 2016/17, the LEP Through our Business Loan Port Growth Programme; and infrastructure to unlock growth. Alleviation Scheme. European and work to overcome issues worked to support businesses’ Fund, administrated by Hull City organising a Parliamentary funding was invested to support surrounding the use of Burton Council, in total 16 businesses reception. flood alleviation at Killingholme Constable Hall for BBC Radio 1’s growth plans and ensure have accessed £7.2m in loans, Marshes and along the River Big Weekend. creating 152 direct jobs and Hull, and for environmental their voice was heard on key Key Facts Our Investment and Regulation the revitalisation of Trinity Indoor improvements in Bridlington and 80 indirect jobs and enabling Board brings together local Market and the surrounding North East Lincolnshire. issues, including Brexit and the £10.5m private sector investment. authorities, business and statutory public spaces, and supported Key Facts In March the programmes Over 12,184 businesses agencies to drive the development businesses to bring retail and The Humber Enterprise Zone, the industrial strategy. largest in the country, saw high were supplemented by a new engaged with Growth of an Infrastructure Plan for the office space back into use through £16.9m new Hub Humber. a small grants scheme. profile successes during 2016/17. infrastructure investment vehicle, the £400m Siemens’ wind turbine blade Northern Powerhouse Investment The LEP’s Growth Deal Investment has also gone into investment secured manufacturing facility at Green This year we became one of the One of the highlights of our Fund, which was enabled by 2,044 jobs created to programme supports Grimsby Town Centre, with an Port Hull was opened by the infrastructure projects across the office development completed first LEPs to appoint a dedicated business engagement during 10 LEPs and the British Business date across Growing the Business Secretary, Greg Clark, 2,065 additional Bank coming together. £5.7m of Humber programme Humber, led by local authorities and improvements to access and in December, while the Humber Small Business Champion, 2016/17 was the Humber businesses and properties the Humber’s European funding and businesses. It was expanded public realm carried out. Enterprise Park on the former BAe Graham Cross, in recognition Northern Powerhouse Business again in January following a third with reduced flood risk by allocation was invested into Transport projects delivered site at Brough was opened by 2023 of the vital role SMEs play in the Summit. Organised as part of the £11.6m ESIF investment successful bid to Government, during 2016/17 included the Prince Andrew in March. Humber economy. Graham works LEP’s support for Business Week, it the scheme, and the first local will support 1,156 with a further £16.9m for six new investment has now been made. widening of Anlaby Road in Hull, The Enterprise Zone more than with our Business Development attracted top level speakers from businesses infrastructure projects. a new roundabout at Barnetby 1,200ha of EZ doubled in size this year to include Board and membership across the North and provoked European funding was also used Growth Deal investment was used Top in North Lincolnshire and 14 new sites, after a successful development land with organisations including Hull & plenty of debate. to establish a range of support during 2016/17 to support a maintenance of Grovehill Bridge Over 2,997 businesses bid to Government led by the LEP. incentives Humber Chamber of Commerce programmes during the year, lasting legacy for Hull UK City of in Beverley. A package of The LEP’s business investment directly supported by the Projects under way on these sites and the Federation of Small Culture. The £36.2m Hull Venue, improvements is under way in programmes went from strength including for business start-ups, Growth Hub include the DoubleTree hotel, Ron 7,300 new homes will be Businesses to understand and act export advice, manufacturing a 3,500-capacity conference and Bridlington town centre, including to strength, with a stream of Dearing UTC and Energy Works constructed on the needs of businesses. growth and innovation. performance venue, started on road widening, road realignment in Hull. decisions made by our Investment Growing the Humber site with £3.5m support through and a new bridge over the Panel of local business experts. One of our key support Other Growth Deal investment private sector leverage by the LEP. Meanwhile support for Gypsey Race watercourse to 132ha habitats supported mechanisms for businesses is our Hull’s Old Town has enabled improve town centre access. is supporting Enterprise Zone site 2021 - £160m developments including improved for conservation Business Growth Hub. By the end

Grimsby Town Centre: The LEP Siemens Factory: The Single Paull Flood Wall: Humber Growth Growth Hub Funding Expo: Growing the Humber grant: Business Loan Fund: A loan has allocated £3.7m to the continued Conversation Group helped to Deal investment has unlocked delivery The Humber Growth Hub hosted Pipers Crisps in North Lincolnshire of around £1m is helping to regeneration of Grimsby Town Centre, ensure delivery of the £310m in of the UK’s longest glass flood wall, a Funding Expo in January 2017, invested in equipment to help increase accelerate parts of the Fruit Market which is expected to unlock up to Siemens offshore wind assembly and helping to protect 14,000 homes and which briefed businesses on the factory output, in order to meet development; including refurbishing £30m in private investment, and production facility went smoothly. industrial development sites. funding opportunities available to increased product demand. buildings and installing an create up to 280 jobs. support their growth. additional electricity supply.

06 07 The Board

The following were members of Malcolm Scott the Humber LEP Board during Kardomah 94 2016/17: Anne Laudage C&A Laudage (to 25th January 2017) The Humber LEP is driving growth of Business Graham Cross the Humber economy for the benefit Hull & Humber Chair: of our communities. The strength of our Chamber of Commerce partnership lies in our collaborative Lord Haskins Vice Chair: approach. Tim Rix Local Authority JR Rix & Sons

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in England and Wales Phillips 66 Gary Warke MBE Gary Young Group KCOM Group

Our full annual accounts for 2016/17, including our core operating costs and project investments, are available online at: humberlep.org/annualreview